The Lady with the Dog
by Anton Chekhov(1899)
Short Storyc. 15 pages
“And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and glorious life would begin.”
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by Anton Chekhov(1899)
“And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and glorious life would begin.”
Anton Chekhov(1899)
Gurov, a cynical Moscow banker vacationing in Yalta, begins an affair with a young married woman walking a little white dog. Chekhov wrote hundreds of stories, but many consider this his finest. The plot is simple: adultery, separation, reunion. What makes it extraordinary is how Chekhov refuses the conventions of both romance and cautionary tale. The ending offers neither resolution nor punishment, only two people who have stumbled into love and must somehow go on living. Tolstoy said it was written with incomparable artistry.